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[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
Doesn't make a lot of sense as john10101 said. Anyway, I know of no way on how to do this. An app can not minimize itself and then press a button in a different app. At least not without going deep into the system with root, etc. Sorry.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
I for one use RecentPlus along with the volume buttons. RecentPlus is closer to a system wide volume slider than every app I've found so far. I'll never understand why they had to split up something as simple as a volume control to such a beast. Ringtone volume, media volume, system volume and whatnot. The volume buttons only work properly when you're actually playing music/video. If the device is quiet, you'll only adjust the ringtone volume.

For tablets, there really should be an easier way to handle audio. You just don't need those phone-specific options

And please add a brightness slider if you can. That's another thing I just don't get. 90% of all toggle widgets and even CM switch brightness in smaller increments, requiring you to cycle through all states if you want to decrease brightness, which I personally need to do more often (at least on the fly).

2 sliders would already look pretty ugly, but maybe you can figure something out. Maybe a small switch to change between volume and brightness
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] jinp6301:
Great app! Made changing volume a breeze
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] john10101:
I really like the clean look of the app, and i would suggest against adding any more sliders to it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
If I add it, it will be optional. Additionally I am thinking about a small row of buttons between "home" and "cancel" that switch between volume, brightness, and other stuff.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
You did read the last sentence of my post, didn't you?

Maybe the MIN and MAX buttons could be replaced by "mute" and a slider toggle.

I personally don't use the Min/Max-buttons anyway
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] john10101:
Is it me, or is the cancel more of an exit button then a cancel? the volume slider changes still take effect if i hit cancel, maybe the button should be renamed exit :-)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
It is on purpose that the volume changes immediately, yes. Consider playing music in the background: you can hear while changing if the new volume is how you want it. It doesn't work for games that stop the sound while they are hidden, though. I don't know a way around that limitation, sadly.

With respect to the name: the app is mostly used for app switching (at least by me...) and there I often missed a cancel button. So you "cancel switching apps" and stay where you were. Makes sense? :-)

edit: I know that you can press "back" too, but I find it hard to reach sometimes. (Same with the home button).
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] john10101:
That makes sense. my main use is as a volume slider. so i guess we look at it differently. either way, it works great. thanks again :-)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ouldsmobile:
Cool app. Just curious if there is a way to edit the Long Press behavior in the Froyo roms as well? I flip flop back and forth between Froyo and CM7 and would like to have similar functionality in both but I don't see an easy way to change the behavior in Froyo. I don't mind doing it manually if need be I just need to know where I should looking/editing.

Thanks!

kevin
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
No, not that I know. One option would be to listen to the normal home button press (thus replacing the default home) and launch a different home app from inside. This would be similar to softkeys. I don't know, it has the disadvantage that android can decide to unload the normal home app quicker.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Expatriotex:
OP, I've been using you app and i really like it, even more so now that long press on the new Madmurdock soft home button will launch it.

My biggest concern with the nook is the flimsy buttons wearing out, especially being used so much more than B&N intended in the stock e-reader format.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] brinzei:
I already lost the power button, I had to take it out. After only three months of (heavy) usage. I always carry a ball pen with me these days.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] john10101:
That certainly would stink. Thankfully i have no problems like that.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] no_cannabis:
Very good app, thanks a lot! I especially like the fact that it's transparent, so I can control the volume during the video playback! Good work.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] mmtoman:
make it work with the cm7 with tablet tweaks!

I love this and use it but I'm stuck on v3. All others give me a parse error when installing. But can you help make it work on this rom (the cm7 with tablet tweaks one)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] mooja:
ive been using v5 with all the versions of the tablet tweaks mod without issue
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] mmtoman:
whoops my badd

I downloaded the apps using the xda premium app and it must have corrupted the apk or something sorry about that
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] rotho282:
Well done. Works good
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Expatriotex:
Any thoughts to adding a brightness slider? It would kill 2 birds with one stone for me.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
I implemented that already some time ago. I'll upload it soon after some more testing.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ylixir:
Hot, I've been this but with a brightness control :-D
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Expatriotex:
Thank you so much! I'd be more than happy to test it also.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
I uploaded a new version.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] mooja:
nice, works great!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Cheese Masterj:
Works great, really easy to use. Thanks!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] john10101:
Just downloaded ill test it out and let you know.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] john10101:
Thanks works great!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
The new version of your app is great. I love the way you can customise what to display. I decided to stick with the default layout as 2 sliders at once look a bit annoying. Switching with the buttons is just perfect. The brightness slider is pretty laggy, if there's nothing you can do about it, that's fine, though.

And the settings contradict themselves. You should not be able to have 2 sliders and the toggle buttons at the same time.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Canadoc:
For some reason the app force closes whenever I try to open the tapatalk forum from it . No other apps do that. Any ideas?

From 1.1 Nook Color with 1.1 ghz overclock
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
Thanks for letting me know. I will take a look but I am busy for the next week or so.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] khaytsus:
The Power Widget in CM7 is pretty good, but it's either too flexible (gotta tap it 5-6 times to cycle through) or not quite the right settings for me.

This tool is handy. Appreciate it!
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Taosaur:
Someone mentioned this app in a thread on brightness controls and I thought, "Pssh, I don't need that, I gots a widget." Within an hour I discovered ezPDF doesn't have built-in brightness controls, meaning I had to go back Home for my widget, and I came back looking for this thread :o

I know it wasn't the intended purpose, but being able to adjust brightness from within any app is excellent :D
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ansleyj44:
Anyone running this on the 3.1 beta?

Its been one of my favorite features, but on the beta it doesn't show the volume or brightness sliders. I assume its just a compatibility thing, but wondering if anyone else had tried it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] heelerdog:
Great app. As said before, this is ideal for ezypdf...

Well done.

Heeler.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Taosaur:
I rolled back to CM7.0.3 after about 20minutes. As I recall, everything was showing up in Recent Plus!, but it did force close once. Then again, a lot of things were force closing and performance overall was dragging with or without the OC kernel, hence the rollback.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
I just want to give you guys a quick update. I am following your posts and looking into your issues. I am not on the new 3.1 beta yet, because I need a stable nook right now. If you want to help, send me a logcat when you get a force close.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ansleyj44:
Thanks for you help... I really came to love this app running cm7 stable. With the beta cm7 I'm not getting forces. The app actually runs fine when I open it from the drawer (apps and sliders), it just doesn't show the volume or brightness sliders when i longpress the home key, though recent apps show up. *its not replacing the regular cm7 recent apps that appears with long pressing the home key.

It was such a long time ago that I installed it originally on the nightlys and stable that i can't remember if I had to set something up in a certain way or not.

Anyway, thanks again for your help and for this app!

Edited for clarification.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Taosaur:
Why don't you go through your settings again per the installation instructions in the OP and make sure nothing got reset? I've had random settings get lost in a flash before.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ansleyj44:
I had tried installing/ uninstalling as per instructions twice and it wasn't sticking, but i reflashed the beta this morning and installed this again and it works now!

Thanks for your help, it was probably just a fluke from my original flash ad other things seem to be working better now too.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] :
I am getting a FC when I try to switch to a couple of apps . . . it is completely reproducible. It sounds like you would like a logcat from a FC, but I can't remember how to grab a logcat. If somebody wants to tell me how to do it, I would be happy to send it on. . .
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
two options:

1. connect to your pc and run "adb logcat" (you need to set up adb correctly first)

2. install "alogcat" from the market.

I actually managed to get a crash today too and I think I have a fix for it. I will post a new version soon.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
Perhaps this is useful for you:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15172718#post15172718

This app can dim the screen down to 0 and the source code is available. I remember reading about you struggling with Android's brightness restrictions
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
No, quite the contrary. I explicitly coded it, so that the brightness can not be set below 18 out of 255. The reason is, that if you set it to 0, the backlight turns off and you can not see anything at all anymore. Bad idea...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
I uploaded a new version (see first post).
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] runhopskipjump:
I am just stopping by to say I love this app. I use it on my nook color and htc thunderbolt. The only thing is that I have to change the screen density to 200 or less to see the brightness button on my thunderbolt. But I don't have an issue with that because this was intended for nook use only. Thank you once again.

By the way is there any chance you will bring this to market for easier updates?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
I don't like that detail about that app either. However, I'm able to set it down to as low as 5 before the backlight turns off completely. It would be great if RecentPlus could also go this low. When reading at night, I often find the current minimum too bright. I've been using "Screen Filter" for a long time to get around this. Now it's SuperDim. But the best solution would be not having to use a separate app in the first place.

Thanks for the update by the way. Those color labels are a nice and useful feature.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
I can change that with the next version, sure. I wanted to make sure and took the value 18 which is the same value the app "quick settings" uses as a minimum. I don't know how other devices behave, so I might put the minimum into the settings and have a safe default (for example how it is now).

If you have other suggestions, just let me know.

I was thinking about implementing the option to kill apps via long-press, if I can figure that out.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
Well, I only tested it on the nook so far. If you can post me a screenshot of how it looks on the thunderbolt, I can fix that problem (for example by reducing the icon size or the number of rows to display).

Interesting idea. Maybe I should do that. :-)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
Sounds great :)

Nice idea.

Maybe it's easier and more comfortable to just go to the app info screen on long-press. You can kill the app there and have other options like deinstalling an app.

Just an idea, though.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
I was interested in how that works, so here we go:

Recent Plus in Market
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
Gave it a 5-star review :)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] :
So I love this app to death, but have not upgraded to V7 because the icons are SOO UGLY. Can you (or hell, me or someone) give you some pngs and get those upgraded?

Again, love the work, but you know...eeek ;)
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] john10101:
Gratz on getting it on the market. Now ill always keep it up to date. 5 Stars given as well. Thanks for the great app.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
Any news btw?
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
many other things I have to work on. Anyway, I pushed an update. Please test.

v0.8: (July 31, 2011)

long press opens application settings

new toggle to enable even lower brightness levels
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
Very low brightness setting doesn't stick for me. It defaults to a brighter setting once I leave RecentPlus.

Apart from that, great update. The ability to go to the app settings will become very useful, I'm sure
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
You are right. Now I start to understand what you are talking about. :-) It seems like you can not set the global brightness lower than around 10 without using this method requiring root permissions you linked to. Sorry. Not sure I will find time to implement that.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Taosaur:
Would it be possible to include a setting where, in addition to bringing up the Recent Plus window, long-pressing 'n' unhides the status bar?

Or, an option to show a 'Menu' button in the Recent Plus window--does pressing a Menu button also unhide the status bar?

I'd rather let my volume keys keep doing what they're doing, but one of my few remaining peeves with CM7 is that in a lot of apps, hiding the status bar is a one-way operation.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ianPhillips1:
What launcher do you use? ADW has a swipe setting that will hide unhide your stays bar, but only on your home screens. You should try remapping the buttons, I was hesitant but when I did I wondered why I didn't in the fist place.

Ian
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
You can decide which button unhides the status bar in the CM:tablet tweaks settings.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Taosaur:
:o You know what? I knew that. I sought out, implemented, and promptly forgot about this solution a long time ago--I already had Vol+ assigned.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] thoughtlesskyle:
weird question but could you also add a slider for brightness (yes i know CM7 has that slide on status bar thing, but i like how MIUI has that slider right in the status bar i would love to have something like that in recent apps
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
Already there: hit menu->settings and enable it.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] thoughtlesskyle:
I am downloading this right now then
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] boxcar8028:
just got this. love it so far. very handy. thanks for the app.

great job :D
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ianPhillips1:
Wow, never thought there were settings. Brightness slider is great. This is a great app btw.

Ian
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ianPhillips1:
I just found that if you hold the volume key remapped to menu it toggles your status bar also. I don't use the disable fullscreen w/ an unhide button, no need with my volume keys mapped to back and menu.

Ian
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] arda99:
Have a little problem that some apps can't be run from recent app list, whether its currently running or closed. One example is uc browser -- it's kinda hit and miss, but fails most of the time.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.uc.browser.en&hl=en

running CM7 #154 on emmc.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
Thank you. I can reproduce the error. Give me a few days and I will try to figure this out.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Taosaur:
A bit off topic, but related to this app: does anyone know a way to map media play/pause to a hardkey? Getting it to work either on a long-press or whenever the screen is off would be ideal.

I use the NC for audiobooks fairly often and occasionally as an MP3 player, and I like to keep the screen PIN-locked, meaning if I need to pause it's a matter of pulling out/grabbing/flipping open my case, waking, entering the PIN, possibly navigating to my media home screen, and then pausing :P It would be great if I could pause/resume audio without pulling out and waking the NC (e.g. reach into my bag or over to my nightstand and push a button). The ideal would be if I could get the Power button to do this when the screen is off, leaving the volume buttons as-is, with media seek on long-press, but I expect remapping one of the volume buttons would be more doable.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Arbelzapf:
You can add media player controls in the lockscreen settings. That should at least enable you to skip tracks without unlocking
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] Taosaur:
There's already a CM7 setting to make vol+/- skip forward/back on longpress when the screen is off; it's just play/pause that's missing. I found an app called Media Keys that adds media controls to the Shortcut menu, which means I can assign them to Menu, Home, or Search as longpress actions (same as Recent Plus), then remap that button to a volume key with keysmod, but none of those actions execute unless you wake and unlock the NC :/

The CM7 Lockscreen widgets don't work on an actual PIN/PW/pattern lock, only on the non-secure, anti-butt-dialing lockscreens. You can either have a purely symbolic lockscreen with widgets, or a secure one with no widgets, or, if you're a masochist, you can go through both sequentially, but you can't combine the features of the two in one lockscreen. I tried out a lockscreen-toggle widget, but that does affect both types of lockscreen, either turning both on or both off.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] ianPhillips1:
FWIW, the only program that I have noticed acting the same is nook tweaks.

Ian
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
Just a quick update: I can reproduce the bug with switching to certain apps like the uc browser. I have been trying for many hours to fix this, but I can not figure out how to fix it. I looked into the android source, but I am starting the activities in the same way. Other task switcher apps don't have this problem, apparently. Hrm...
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] timoskrempel:
I uploaded a new version to the Market:

v1.0: (April 18, 2012)

fix switching to some apps (thanks arda99!)

Let me know if there are any problems.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lemuren:
Hi

What custom ROM would you say is the fastest one out there. Does not matter if its 6.1 or 6.5, just need it to be fast.

Many thanks
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruno_123:
826x or dynamics 2.0 any of these i'm currently using 826x latest build and it is blazing fast xD
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caliban2:
how about "test them yourself?!"

and how about "ask in the right forum?!" this isn't exactly a dev-related question.

oh, and the fastest rom with what? with sense? without? bare-rom? or do you want applications installed? questions like "which is the fastest?" are pretty useless. or the best. or the most stable.

and above all, they're just plain lazy! :mad:

just go and flash the roms that are actively developed. there aren't that many left these days. noone knows how you use your phone and you don't know how other people use their phones. or how many roms they've tried before saying "this is the best".
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JarekG:
Well

If you want fast for X1 stay with the original ROM (6.1). It was design for this device so you will get the least bugs and SOD's.

As for me I used Energy and couple other ones, they were OK but after having my device replaced I never got back to flash custom ROM.

I heard 826x is good and so is Dynamics 2.0 (this Dynamics will be releasing new ROM soon...so he said).

@caliban2

I thought this was user friendly forum there is no need for your replay like that.

I agree that every one is using their device different way, but can you image what would happen if people would not voice their opinion? This world would go to crapper dude.

Every opinion counts and maybe you are tech savvy, not every one is, and even you were not born that way, you had to ask questions. Right?:confused:

We all make mistakes as some point in our lives, little pointers the right directions are good, but comments like yours don't make friends.

Also I though that in order to ask question in dev forum you need to be some sort of level (like 10 post or something like that).

Like the old saying goes "If you don't have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all."
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caliban2:
wrong.

i had to search & read a lot before becoming the 47th person asking the same question again - i think there's something in the rules about that. and how many "best rom/fastest rom"-threads are there now? aren't those in general / q&a section enough? and don't tell me this thread has anything to do with if someone's "tech-savvy"...

but hey, if you guys are happy going through the same topic over and over again - have fun! :)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JarekG:
Thank you, see was that so hard?

P.S.

As new ROMs are being create "the same topics" are not exactly the same...like ford is not the same this year as it was couple of years back....or even last year.

Does this look familiar? If last year ROMs are as good as this year, why are you using ultrashot kitchen to create new ROM?

Why Energy is updating his every few days?

Why not use jerpelea last years kitchen?

See my point?:rolleyes:
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orkhanahmadov:
in my opinion best custom ROM for X1 is gtrab's SEX1 Pure ROM

It's WM6.5 with Titanium and all XPeria stuff (without Sense). Zero weird customizations, just OS upgrade from WM6.1 to WM6.5.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caliban2:
don't get condescending. i don't think i need your permission or approval, hm?

it ain't hard at all. but at least keep it in the right forum, not dev.

why am i using dynamic-kitchen? because itje stopped cooking, i was using ervius kitchen after that and when ultrashot released his, he made it easy for me to make the switch to osbuilder.

you see? has nothing to do with "last years roms are still good". where did i say that anyway? but what's strange is that in these "best rom"-threads always very old roms are recommended: gtrab stopped cooking a long time ago, and now even stock is good?!

for the rest it simply comes down to personal taste. and how stable a rom is. so, what does it tell you if i say "in the past 2 years i never had a stable rom from agent47, gtrab, nrg or 826x etc. only itje and ultrashot made everyday-roms"?

right, it tells you nothing. because your experience and demands are different. also, saying "this is the best rom of them all" is quite demeaning to all the other cooks which provide you with a choice, don't you think?

but to keep with the thread:

from reading the last few pages of the active rom-threads, it looks like dynamics is the most stable combined with the latest software. 826x-series seems also fast and stable. oh, wait. now it's down again to personal taste, right?